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Worldwide Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth. This task has considerable challenges due to immense variation in geographic landscapes. The image-to-image retrieval-based approaches fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

Planet-scale photo geolocalization is the complex task of estimating the location depicted in an image solely based on its visual content. Due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), current approaches achieve super-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Theiner , Eric Mueller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Worldwide geolocalization aims to locate the precise location at the coordinate level of photos taken anywhere on the Earth. It is very challenging due to 1) the difficulty of capturing subtle location-aware visual semantics, and 2) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pengyue Jia , Yiding Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Yuhao Wang , Yantong Du , Xiao Han , Xuetao Wei , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xiangyu Zhao

Worldwide visual geo-localization aims to determine the geographic location of an image anywhere on Earth using only its visual content. Despite recent progress, learning expressive representations of geographic space remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Angel Daruna , Nicholas Meegan , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Geographic information is essential for modeling tasks in fields ranging from ecology to epidemiology. However, extracting relevant location characteristics for a given task can be challenging, often requiring expensive data fusion or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Konstantin Klemmer , Esther Rolf , Caleb Robinson , Lester Mackey , Marc Rußwurm

The concept of geo-localization refers to the process of determining where on earth some `entity' is located, typically using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. The entity of interest may be an image, sequence of images, a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniel Wilson , Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

Geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location where an image was captured using observable visual evidence. Traditional methods achieve impressive results through large-scale training on massive image corpora. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinnao Li , Zijian Chen , Tingzhu Chen , Changbo Wang

Image geolocalization is the challenging task of predicting the geographic coordinates of origin for a given photo. It is an unsolved problem relying on the ability to combine visual clues with general knowledge about the world to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Lukas Haas , Silas Alberti , Michal Skreta

Cross-view geo-localization infers a location by retrieving geo-tagged reference images that visually correspond to a query image. However, the traditional satellite-centric paradigm limits robustness when high-resolution or up-to-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zixuan Song , Jing Zhang , Di Wang , Zidie Zhou , Wenbin Liu , Haonan Guo , En Wang , Bo Du

Worldwide image geolocalization-the task of predicting GPS coordinates from images taken anywhere on Earth-poses a fundamental challenge due to the vast diversity in visual content across regions. While recent approaches adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Pengyue Jia , Seongheon Park , Song Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Sharon Li

In this paper, we address the problem of global-scale image geolocation, proposing a mixed classification-retrieval scheme. Unlike other methods that strictly tackle the problem as a classification or retrieval task, we combine the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Panagiotis Galopoulos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Generalizable cross-view geo-localization aims to match the same location across views in unseen regions and conditions without GPS supervision. Its core difficulty lies in severe semantic inconsistency caused by viewpoint variation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Haitao Zhang , Zhongyi Wen , Zhenyu Kuang , Shuxian Liang , Xiansheng Hua

Modern cameras are equipped with a wide array of sensors that enable recording the geospatial context of an image. Taking advantage of this, we explore depth estimation under the assumption that the camera is geocalibrated, a problem we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Scott Workman , Hunter Blanton

This paper proposes Spatially-Weighted CLIP (SW-CLIP), a novel framework for street-view geo-localization that explicitly incorporates spatial autocorrelation into vision-language contrastive learning. Unlike conventional CLIP-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ting Han , Fengjiao Li , Chunsong Chen , Haoling Huang , Yiping Chen , Meiliu Wu

Worldwide image geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location of an image captured anywhere on Earth, spanning street, city, regional, national, and continental scales. Existing methods rely on visual features that are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Junchao Cui , Wenqi Shi , Shaoyong Du , Hang He , Xuanzi Ma , Hao Tang , Xiangyang Luo

We study the image-based geolocalization problem, aiming to localize ground-view query images on cartographic maps. Current methods often utilize cross-view localization techniques to match ground-view query images with 2D maps. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mengjie Zhou , Liu Liu , Yiran Zhong , Andrew Calway

Determining the exact latitude and longitude that a photo was taken is a useful and widely applicable task, yet it remains exceptionally difficult despite the accelerated progress of other computer vision tasks. Most previous approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Brandon Clark , Alec Kerrigan , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Mubarak Shah

We address the problem of ground-to-satellite image geo-localization, that is, estimating the camera latitude, longitude and orientation (azimuth angle) by matching a query image captured at the ground level against a large-scale database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Dylan Campbell , Piotr Koniusz , Hongdong Li

We present a novel approach to geolocalising panoramic images on a 2-D cartographic map based on learning a low dimensional embedded space, which allows a comparison between an image captured at a location and local neighbourhoods of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Noe Samano , Mengjie Zhou , Andrew Calway
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